I Love The 80s
My wife bought me tickets to see the "Regeneration Tour" at Wolf Trap, which is a collection of 80s bands that are continuing to milk their hits as long as they can for as much money as they can. She bought them under the auspice of "Hey cool, Belinda Carlisle! Anthony would love Belinda Carlisle!" Sadly, she was sooo right.
First up: Naked Eyes
...who had two recognizable hits that they(he?) used to bookend his set. After opening up with "Always Something There To Remind Me", they settled in to play some other random hits and try out some new material for a new album! YAY! That gave me some time to read the playbill to get more info on who these people were. One interesting fact I pulled out about Naked Eyes is that they actually started out as 4 guys in a band and then disbanded. Then two of those guys, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, went on to form Tears for Fears (!) while the guy last night, Pete Byrne, started Naked Eyes with the last guy, Rob Fisher, who is now deceased. Tears for Fears v. Naked Eyes... Can you say Andrew Ridgely? Back to the show - so two girls in the front are starting to do this weird dance with their arms, very tempted to get up and start dancing. Of course, Mr. Byrne sees this and motions them to stand up, which one of the girls took as "come up on stage". So she bolted up on stage and started doing this weird ballroom solo dancing - the kind of dance that ballroom dancers do on "So You Think You Can Dance". People were laughing but also no one was complaining because she was leggy and was wearing a pretty skimpy skirt, with slits all the way above her thighs. Pretty impressive skirt though because for as much moving as she did, there were no "malfunctions". She even bent over, spun around, tripped on her own high heels, and then turned it into a bow. All in all, pretty impressive. When asked her name, she said it was Lily Batini. Sounds like a stage dancer name to me. (The YouTube below is not her... but similar odd switch step.)
More songs I didn't know until the final song, which was "Promises, Promises". Good tune, finished it out. Mr. Byrne goes over to shake Lily's hand and thank her for rocking out. She takes his hand and kisses it. Lily is clearly sauced.
Second up: Flock of Seagulls
We walked away from our seats to walk around the Wolf Trap grounds, but from what I heard, I didn't miss anything. Of course, I thought it was ABC since I didn't know any of the songs... until. I Ran. Still sounded great, just like I remember it, but without the OJ Simpson lyrics.
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Fun Time with Blogging
I know I'm a little late to the game here - but I assure you, at one point I was actually a pioneer. I was blogging when I was in college, putting up website using a lynx browser, old school graphics, etc. I even put up the first version of the Patti Labelle website, which has moved on to greater things, I hope... Ok, I just went to her website and I'm pretty sure I can still do a better job, even with my limited skill set.
Anyways, the point is, I was there, but with the rush of new Internet technologies, new ways to put together websites, all the graphical capabilities of Photoshop, Dreamweaver - being on the web started to look daunting. So now I hear of different Internet technologies and feel completely lost.
Image by Zemanta via CrunchBase
Hopefully keeping up with this blog will help me keep up with all the trends, including this one that I'm testing right now - Zemanta. It's a tool meant to help bloggers with suggestions on links, images, related stories, and it automagically populates your blog entry. Like some of the wikipedia links above, some of the tags, it suggests all of it and you can select which ones you want to attach. I'm always a fan of attaching pictures to my blog postings so hopefully this will make it that much faster. Now to Zemanta-ize this post...
Blown Away
So I had to blow away my old installation of MT, database and all - basically because I had no idea what I was doing when I did an upgrade. And it had been so long since I updated my site. So here we are again. Starting the blog again. 2 years later. I have even less time - or maybe even more - is that possible? One of these days I'll figure out how to balance blogging with actual communication in the real world. However, for those times when I want to share on a blog, now I have a way to do it. And I was paying those hosting and domain fees for basically nothing...
I just finished installing Movable Type 4!
Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!